In an ancient castle nestled among the deep mountains and dense forests of the Southern Continent, Emlyn stood motionless, gazing at the moon outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
As early as the day after the War of Doomsday ended, once the sun and the other planets—which the Outer Deities had utterly destroyed before the barrier disappeared—had returned, Emlyn had noticed obvious changes beginning to appear in the moon.
The crimson moon that had accompanied the Sanguine since their birth, enduring through four entire epochs and bearing symbolism such as feminine power and interaction with the Spirit World, had actually begun to fade, gradually revealing a luminous white.
The process was not particularly slow. After only half a month, the crimson radiance that heightened spirituality in the night no longer predominated. A cool white light replaced it, covering the earth in a phosphorescent sheen.
Now, not only Beyonders sensitive to fluctuations in spirituality, but even ordinary people had noticed the celestial changes. Astronomers from every nation began observing the stars, attempting to reacquaint themselves with the celestial body that was not far from their planet and orbited it at regular intervals.
This time, neither the major churches nor the national governments stopped them.
Having become the youngest Duke of the Sanguine, a Sequence 2 Life-Giver, Emlyn naturally understood the reason for this change:
The Mother Goddess of Depravity, who had occupied the moon tens of thousands of years ago and repeatedly contested the Primordial Moon faith within the barrier with the Mother Tree of Desire, had truly departed.
Before this, the Mother Goddess of Depravity, entrenched on the moon, had contaminated it with her own symbolism, turning it red and influencing Beyonders of the Mother and Moon pathways within the barrier. The Mother Tree of Desire had cooperated with her on one